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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though.

• cratermoon 4y ago
  > It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though. So does the "OK" gesture. The swastika existed for almost 2000 years, and was a good luck symbol, even in the west, until 1930s. The sonnenrad, the othal rune, the Celtic cross, and the triskele.
  • Zababa 4y ago
    I don't remember "frens" being used as a symbol by a country/ideology commiting war crimes during a world war.
  • robonerd 4y ago
    > So does the "OK" gesture. P(uses the OK gesture) dwarfs P(is alt-right). Plug it all into Bayes theorem and you'll find that P(is alt-right|gestures OK) must be small. In other words, you're falling for a manufactured hysteria. One that is designed to make people jump at shadows, level unjustified accusations, and generally make you seem uncredible and neurotic.
  • stickfigure 4y ago
    Only fringe ideologues desperately searching for outrage think the OK gesture has anything to do with white supremacy. This is the McMartin Preschool of the present day. The swastika, on the other hand, was used in living memory by an organization that murdered millions of people. Like the toothbrush mustache, it will be generations before that can come back in style.